TY - JOUR
T1 - Tailored graphene systems for unconventional applications in energy conversion and storage devices
AU - Hu, Chuangang
AU - Song, Long
AU - Zhang, Zhipan
AU - Chen, Nan
AU - Feng, Zhihai
AU - Qu, Liangti
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 The Royal Society of Chemistry.
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - Graphene-based materials have shown great potential in various fields across physics, chemistry, biology, and electronics, due to their unique electronic properties, facile synthesis, and ease of functionalization. In this review, we summarize the significant advances in tailored graphene systems for the recently developed unconventional energy conversion and storage devices reported by our group and others, namely focused on their tunable and controllable preparation and remarkable applications in new types of supercapacitors, lithium ion batteries, photovoltaic cells, and other emerging generators. This featured article also highlights the working principles and outlines the problems hindering the practical applications of graphene-based materials in these energy-related devices. Future research trends towards new methodologies in the design and synthesis of graphene-based systems with unique properties for emerging energy storage and energy conversion devices are also proposed.
AB - Graphene-based materials have shown great potential in various fields across physics, chemistry, biology, and electronics, due to their unique electronic properties, facile synthesis, and ease of functionalization. In this review, we summarize the significant advances in tailored graphene systems for the recently developed unconventional energy conversion and storage devices reported by our group and others, namely focused on their tunable and controllable preparation and remarkable applications in new types of supercapacitors, lithium ion batteries, photovoltaic cells, and other emerging generators. This featured article also highlights the working principles and outlines the problems hindering the practical applications of graphene-based materials in these energy-related devices. Future research trends towards new methodologies in the design and synthesis of graphene-based systems with unique properties for emerging energy storage and energy conversion devices are also proposed.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84919628585&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1039/c4ee02594f
DO - 10.1039/c4ee02594f
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84919628585
SN - 1754-5692
VL - 8
SP - 31
EP - 54
JO - Energy and Environmental Science
JF - Energy and Environmental Science
IS - 1
ER -
